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Horace A. Bartilow serves as Professor of International Political Economy and American Foreign Policy at American University's School of International Service. A Jamaican-born scholar, he earned his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Albany in 1994 and employs mixed-methods expertise in statistical analysis, documentary research, and elite interviewing.
His research uniquely bridges licit and illicit political economies: examining international trade/finance, structural adjustment, and sustainable development within licit systems, while analyzing illicit trafficking and U.S. drug enforcement impacts on human rights, democratization, and racial inequality in the developing world and United States. Methodologically rigorous, his work integrates archival analysis with focus group methodologies to uncover systemic power dynamics.
Bartilow has published in premier journals including Third World Quarterly, International Studies Quarterly, and Latin American Politics and Society. His seminal works include The Debt Dilemma: IMF Negotiations in Jamaica, Grenada, and Guyana (Macmillan Press, 1997) and Drug War Pathologies: Embedded Corporatism and U.S Drug Enforcement in the Americas (UNC Press, 2019), which critically assesses drug enforcement's global human rights consequences. Current book projects under contract with Cambridge University Press address Cold War ideology origins and China's role in global liberalism.
Teaching responsibilities for 2025 include SISU-306 (Advanced Mixed Methods Research), SISU-419 (Senior Capstone on Globalization/Health Security), and SISU-206 (Introduction to International Studies Research), reflecting his commitment to training next-generation scholars in rigorous interdisciplinary analysis.
